College Football: Ara the Beautiful

Toilet-paper streamers festooned the trees. Strings of firecrackers
chattered like machine guns. Signs were everywhere. SONS OF ERIN,
UNITE! they said. RUB THEIR NOSES IN THE IRISH SOD!
Sturdy young men stopped strangers, flashed their "Hate State!" buttons
and inquired politely: "You wouldn't be a State man, now, would you?"
South Bend, Ind., was no place for the faint of heart last week. Notre
Dame, the No. 1 college football team in the nation, was taking on
Archrival Michigan State—and the Fighting Irish were in a fighting...